A little of this a little of that...maybe a little more?

Ok so I try to live by being able to eat a little something sweet everyday because I have a crazy chocolate obsession and without it I just might die. So I buy the funsize candy bars so I can just have a little dessert after lunch and dinner.

Well lets just say by the end of the day I have eaten the ENTIRE BOX every time.

Should I just try cutting it out completely? I think if I do I will freak out and rob walmart of all their Twix. But it seems that I can't stop once I have started.

 

ideas?

Try something that is chocolate but not that satisfying like the sugar free jello pudding snacks? since it is always a little disappointing after the first 2 bites, I dont find myself reaching for another.

100 cal packs-- at least if you eat the box its half the calories.

Cold turkey. ugh.

um. if I knew how to keep myself from eating stuff that I love and really want to have but binge on/eat excessively, I wouldnt be FAT!! good luck to ya girl!  The best thing for me is to not have it in the house or find decent alternatives.

edit: I just remembered. Popsicles work really well for me-- fudgesicles and all fruit popsicles. Also-- GUM! When I remember to do it, there are great flavored gums and chewing them helps get the sweet needs out plus the chewing needs. Also, york makes little chocolate/mint little mints. They are GREAT and the whole package is 170 cals or something so you can eat with impunity during the day.

oooo fudgiscles is such a good idea! thanks drea

I would do something weird until I developed a better habit. These are three I can think of right off of the top of my head:

1. Appoint a keeper of the chocolate, and tell him/her EXACTLY how much he/she's allowed to give you after lunch or dinner. Pick someone who is a hard-ass, like a woman in accounting or a boy who likes to tease you and see you suffer.

2. Buy them one at a time. Our neighborhood store sells lindt squares at the cashier counter for like 40 cents each. You could pick one up each day and then you won't have more lying around to tempt you. Also, you'll become friends with the counter guys, and when you go in there with your friends they'll call you by name and your friends will be all like "why do you know the convenience store guy??"

3. Make it very annoying and elaborate to get your hands on them. Lock them in a box and put them on a high shelf that you need a stepladder to get to. Keep the key to the box in your mailbox outside or downstairs or wherever your mailbox is, and keep the ladder on the opposite side of the house as the shelf with the goodies. If you are tempted after all of that work to take more than one out of the box, remind yourself that you didn't make up such an elaborate scheme just to cheat!

and then eat them in tiny bites.

-Cordie :)

I too love chocolate....here is what works for me.

Buy some diet hot chocolate....I was a skeptic until I tried it...I swear by it, it always curbs my cravings.

I second the fudgsicles...except I get 2 of them & melt them down a little in a small bowl & top it with some crushed almonds...yumm always tastes like rocky road to me.

I hear having a friend handcuff your hands behind your back and putting duct tape over your mouth works.

of course you want to careful select said friend...

I too have a sweets addiction and one time I gave myself the challenge of not eating any sweets for an entire month. It was hard but i perservered through it and my cravings eventually went away. You gotta give a little to get a little. Just look at it as a challenge to yourself, because it sucks more when you let yourself down. At least to me it does. Good luck.

I like Starbucks Dark Chocolate (about 100 cal for 1/4 of the bar) and CocoaVia Chocolate bars (100 cal/bar + many vitamins :) ). They're both dark chocolate and very rich/strong in taste, so after I eat a piece, I don't feel like I need anymore. I find that milk chocolate doesn't quite accomplish this.

I'm EXACTLY the same way.  There are just certain foods I cannot be trusted with keeping in the house.  Just last week, I bought a bag of the mini mint 3 musketeers bars.  I popped them in the freezer--they're great cold AND they take longer to eat that way.  I finished dinner, told myself I could have two, took out said two, and RESOLVED to not have more.  I could hear them CALLING me all night.  Needless to say, the bag was gone within the hour.  Sigh.

I just can't have that sort of thing in the house.  It's sad, and it's a hassle, but, if I want to treat myself now I just buy the treat on a daily basis so I don't have the option of going back for seconds and thirds.  I was seriously craving those mint candy bars the other day, but rather than buy a whole bag, I just bought a single candy bar (on sale for 50 cents!), spit it in half and promptly threw one half away.  I wish my willpower is better, but wasting 25 cents is better than wasting 1000 calories...

I'd say that you'd be better off just buying A candy bar and cutting it in half or so, rather than a bag/box of mini ones.  Even if you ate all of it, you'd be eating less than the whole bag/box.

Baby steps, lol, baby steps...

If I have something like candy in the house I take the bag, put it inside another ziploc bag, then BURY it deep inside the freezer.  If you make it not only a pain, but a noisy pain to get to your treat sometimes in the process you can talk yourself out of it.  It also helps if someone else is in the house, because you really can't dig to the back of the freezer quietly!

I usually just avoid keeping anything like that in the house though.  My chocolate treat has become Chocolate Peppermint Stick Luna bars which I have for breakfast or sometimes for a mid-morning snack after the gym.  If you can fit the calories and sugar into your numbers, they're great and very high in vitamins/nutrients.  I'm a big chocolate/mint fan, so this flavor is great for me.

Keep the candybars in the freezer and just pull them out one at a time. It really helps to cut consumption down when they're not right there in front of your eyes...

So to sum up:

1) Hide them from yourself/make it difficult to reach them.  I keep all of my chocolates from easter and halloween in a bucket on top of the cupboards.  The only way to get it down is to grab a long-handled spoon and smack it down, and usually my pride in not looking completely ridiculous wins over the need for chocolate.  Usually ;)

2) Don't keep any in the house at all - you can wean yourself off and pare down your cravings by making them wholly inaccesible.  I can't have jelly in the house, myself - there's usually a PB&J massacre within a day of bringing home a jar.

3) Buy only what you intend to consume.  I take a walk every day on my lunch, and usually stop into the store on the way back for a treat.  What I buy is what I get, so as long as I'm careful about what I buy, I get a treat without going overboard.

 I use tootsie rolls for chocolate fixes.  They are, ehhh, ok.  But, not good enough for me to crave them and want to eat a bunch.  Besides, my daughter doesn't like them and always gets a ton at halloween.  Aside from making reindeer poop one winter, I save them for chocolate fixes.   

Try 85% Lindt....your craving will be satisfied with its strong and rich cocoa....I can't even finish one block/square (Each square is around 50 cal)

I'm also a big fan of...whopper, twix, ferrero, kit kat, m&m, and milky way

carnation makes the BEST hot chocolate mix, and if you buy the "light" kind, it's only 45 calories :)